![[Sacred Heart of Jesus]](http://saints.sqpn.com/sts01001.jpg "20kb jpg photograph of the Sacred Heart of Jesus stained glass window, Saint Joseph's Cathedral, Macon, Georgia, USA; artist unknown; photographed by the author, summer 2003")
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About the Devotion
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has its dogmatic foundation the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. On account of the hypostatic union, every part of our Lord’s Human Nature is worthy of adoration. Thus we adore His bodily Heart. We also honour the Heart of Jesus as a reminder or symbol of His love for us, and we are moved to make Him a return of love, because He has loved us and He is not loved by men. Love, consecration, and reparation are the characteristic acts of this devotion. In this form it is now solemnly approved by the Church.
On the feast of the Sacred Heart, celebrated on the Friday after the Octave of Corpus Christi, an act of reparation is prescribed for recitation in every church in the world. On the feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King, the last Sunday of October, an act of consecration of the human race is prescribed. Though this devotion was practised by saintly souls before 1675, it is due to the apparitions of our Lord to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque in the Visitation Monastery at Paray-le-Monial that the feast of the Sacred Heart is now kept on the day assigned by Our Lord. In spite of much opposition the feast was allowed in 1765, and extended to the world in 1856 by Pope Pius IX; in 1929 it was raised to the highest rank. Special manifestations of the devotion are the Communion of Reparation on the first Friday of the month, and the Holy Hour in union with Our Lord in His Agony.
- Bolivia (1925)
- Ecuador
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- Ahmedabad, India, diocese of
- Dallas, Texas, diocese of
- Davenport, Iowa, diocese of
- Ernakulam-Angamaly, India, archdiocese of
- Knoxville, Tennessee, diocese of
- Kottoyam, India, archdiocese of
- Newark, New Jersey, archdiocese of
- Prince-Albert, Saskatchewan, diocese of
- Raleigh, North Carolina, diocese of
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- Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
- Ciampino, Italy
- Fontana, Gozo, Malta
- Prince George, British Columbia
- Gallery of images of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Additional Information
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Catholic Under the Hood
- Hauerietis Aquas by Pope Pius XII
- Holy Cards for Your Inspiration
- Litany of the Sacred Heart
- New Catholic Dictionary: Devotion to the Sacred Heart
- Novena of the Sacred Heart
- uCatholic
MLA Citation
- “Sacred Heart of Jesus“. Saints.SQPN.com. 8 June 2013. Web. 20 June 2013. <>